Antibodies against carbamylated proteins: prevalence and associated disease characteristics in Belgian patients with rheumatoid arthritis or other rheumatic diseases
Objectives: Anti-carbamylated protein antibodies (anti-CarP) are reported to be associated with increased disease activity and with more severe joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. The present study investigated the presence of anti-CarP in various rheumatic diseases, and their specific clinical significance in RA, in Belgian rheumatology patients. Method: We tested sera from 254 RA patients, 56 healthy controls, and 153 patients with different rheumatic conditions: juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), axial spondyloarthritis, systemic sclerosis, and Sjögren’s syndrome (SS). An... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Schlagwörter: | Immunologie / Rhumatologie / Allergie et immunopathologie |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26528030 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/313643 |